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Men's Results

Track

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	USA	10.07	Calvin Smith USA	10.21	Emmit King USA	10.24
200 m	Calvin Smith USA	20.14	Elliott Quow USA	20.41	Pietro Mennea ITA	20.51
400 m	Bert Cameron JAM	45.05	Mike Franks USA	45.22	Sunder Nix USA	45.24
800 m	Willi Wülbeck DEU	1:43.65	Rob Druppers NLD	1:44.20	Joaquim Cruz BRA	1:44.27
1500 m	Steve Cram UK	3:41.59	Steve Scott USA	3:41.87	Saïd Aouita MAR	3:42.02
5,000 m	Eamonn Coghlan IRL	13:28.53	Werner Schildhauer DDR	13:30.20	Martti Vainio FIN	13:30.34
10,000 m	Alberto Cova ITA	28:01.04	Werner Schildhauer DDR	28:01.18	Hansjörg Kunze DDR	28:01.26
Marathon	Rob de Castella AUS	2:10:03	Kebebe Balcha ETH	2:10:27	Waldemar Cierpinski DDR	2:10:37
110 m Hurdles	Greg Foster USA	13.42	Arto Bryggäre FIN	13.46	Willie Gault USA	13.48
400 m Hurdles	Edwin Moses USA	47.50	Harald Schmid DEU	48.61	Aleksandr Kharlov USSR	49.03
3,000 m Steeplechase	Patriz Ilg DEU	8:15.06	Boguslaw Maminski POL	8:17.03	Colin Reitz UK	8:17.75
20 km Walk	Ernesto Canto MEX	1:20:49	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia	1:20:59	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov USSR	1:21:08
50 km Walk	Ronald Weigel DDR	3:54:40	José Marín ESP	3:58:14	Sergey Yung USSR	3:58:53
4 x 100 m Relay	USA	37.86	Italy	38.37	USSR	38.41
4 x 400 m	USSR	3:00.79	West Germany	3:01.83	Great Britain	3:03.53
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Field

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Carl Lewis USA	8.55	Jason Grimes USA	8.29	Mike Conley USA	8.12
Triple Jump	Zdzislaw Hoffmann POL	17.42	Wille Banks USA	17.18	Ajayi Agbebaku NGA	17.18
High Jump	Gennadiy Avdeyenko USSR	2.32	Tyke Peacock USA	2.32	Zhu Jianhua CHN	2.29
Pole Vault	Sergey Bubka USSR	5.70	Konstantin Volkov USSR	5.60	Atanas Tarev BGR	5.60
Shot Put	Edward Sarul POL	21.39	Ulf Timmermann DDR	21.16	Remigius Machura Czechoslovakia	20.98
Discus	Imrich Bugár Czechoslovakia	67.72	Luis Delís CUB	67.36	Gejza Valent Czechoslovakia	66.08
Hammer	Sergey Litvinov USSR	82.68	Yuriy Sedykh USSR	80.94	Zdzislaw Kwasny POL	79.42
Javelin	Detlef Michel DDR	89.48	Tom Petranoff USA	85.60	Dainis Kûla USSR	85.58
Decathlon	Daley Thompson UK	8666	Jürgen Hingsen DEU	8561	Siegfried Wentz DEU	8478
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Women's Results

Track

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Marlies Göhr DDR	10.97	Marita Koch DDR	11.02	Diane Williams USA	11.06
200 m	Marita Koch DDR	22.13	Merlene Ottey JAM	22.19	Kathy Cook UK	22.37
400 m	Jarmila Kratochvílová Czechoslovakia	47.99	Tatána Kocembová Czechoslovakia	48.59	Mariya Pinigina USSR	49.19
800 m	Jarmila Kratochvílová Czechoslovakia	1:54.68	Lyubov Gurina USSR	1:56.11	Yekaterina Podkopayeva USSR	1:57.58
1500 m	Mary Decker USA	4:00.90	Zamira Zaytseva USSR	4:01.19	Yekaterina Podkopayeva USSR	4:02.25
3000 m	Mary Decker USA	8:34.62	Brigitte Kraus DEU	8:35.11	Tatyana Kazankina USSR	8:35.13
Marathon	Grete Waitz NOR	2:28:09	Marianne Dickerson USA	2:31:09	Raisa Smekhnova USSR	2:31:13
100 m Hurdles	Bettine Jahn DDR	12.35	Kerstin Knabe DDR	12.42	Ginka Zagorcheva BGR	12.62
400 m Hurdles	Bärbel Broschat DDR	54.55	Ellen Neumann DDR	54.56	Petra Pfaff DDR	55.84
4 x 100 m	East Germany	41.76	Great Britain	42.71	Jamaica	42.73
4 x 400 m	East Germany	3:1.73	Czechoslovakia	3:20.32	USSR	3:21.16
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Medal table by country

Position	Country:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.	East Germany	11	8	6	25
2.	USA	8	9	7	24
3.	USSR	5	5	10	20
4.	Czechoslovakia	4	3	2	9
5.	West Germany	2	5	1	8
6.	Great Britain	2	2	3	7
7.	Poland	2	1	1	4
8=	Finland	1	1	1	3
8=	Italy	1	1	1	3
8=	Jamaica	1	1	1	3
11=	Australia	1	0	0	1
11=	Ireland	1	0	0	1
11=	Mexico	1	0	0	1
11=	Norway	1	0	0	1
15=	Cuba	0	1	0	1
15=	Ethiopia	0	1	0	1
15=	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
15=	Romania	0	1	0	1
15=	Spain	0	1	0	1
20.	Bulgaria	0	0	3	3
21=	Brazil	0	0	1	1
21=	China	0	0	1	1
21=	Greece	0	0	1	1
21=	Morocco	0	0	1	1
21=	Nigeria	0	0	1	1

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References

• http://www2.iaaf.org/results/past/WCH83/index.html